A 200 LEVEL STUDENT (DORCAS) TESTIFIES

A 200-level female understudy of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Dorcas Oluwatimilehin Olanrewaju, has described her experience because of ritualists and how she barely got away passing.

As indicated by Sunday Tribune, the woman was heard being investigated by the security staff accepted to have gone by her Omu-Aran family living arrangement after her discharge last Friday morning.

Dorcas who is the girl of the executive, Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kwara State Council, Mr. Layi Olanrewaju.

She reviewed that she exited her off-grounds inn at around 11:16 a.m. last Thursday, in the wake of getting her course enrollment frame, however, couldn't locate a business bike to pass on her back to grounds.

As indicated by her, during the time spent endeavoring to get an option transportation, she waved to an Ilorin-shading painted taxi which obscure to her was being worked by ritualists.

Taking note of that she was the main KWASU understudy in the taxicab, Dorcas additionally portrayed that two travelers possessed the front seat while she was the third traveler at the back. She included that no sooner had the taxi taken off than a female co-traveler sitting by her griped of cool and asked for that the side glass is twisted up.

"I ended up noticeably oblivious a while later," said the casualty, focusing on that she recovered cognizance in the nook of ritualists at night of the game-changing day.

Dorcas said she was blindfolded and headed to an obscure area, where she met 12 different casualties – male and female.

"We were kept in a room. When they touched me, the lady said I was not unadulterated… They began touching my body with a few things and the lady said they ought to go and keep me someplace, that they needn't bother with me now, that I'm in my period and it isn't the time they require individuals who are discharging,"

"I think around 2:00 a.m., one of them called me and began making inquiries. He said where am I from, and that do I know what I was doing there? I said 'no,' that 'I simply ended up here' and that 'I should be in school composing my exam.' on occasion, they (the ritualists) talk in Hausa however it was not perceptible.

"They would remain by the entryway and later open the entryway and talk. What's more, now and again, they would come inside and simply parade and go. When I arrived, we were 13 however I exited five individuals there. The man revealed to me that I ought not to stress, that he would not enable them to touch me. In this way, he took me out and that was the point at which I knew we were in a compound. He secured my face and secured me up in the boot. I knew they entered the auto and were discussing Ekiti State.

They dropped me around 5.00a.m. "… I knew when we got someplace, I was practically losing cognizance and the man said he had neglected to place water in the radiator and he went to the boot, took me out and instructed me to go.

"I didn't know I was in Omu-Aran. It was the point at which I began strolling around 5:00 a.m. furthermore, I got to the circuitous (near First Bank) before I understood that I was in Omu-Aran."

In the event that they took individuals out, it was there shouting that we would hear. I wrapped my school ID card in my back pocket and did not leave any follow that I had a telephone on me."

Her companion's record

Her coursemate who lives on grounds (name withheld), said they were as one at the College of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), where their area of expertise (Mass Communication) is domiciled, until around 10:00 a.m. on the critical day when she cleared out for her off-grounds settlement to get her course enrollment frame, which she overlooked.

She said in the wake of sitting tight for her call exactly 30 minutes after the fact, she glanced around for her without progress.

"After the examination, I went wherever hunting down her, still with no leap forward. Along these lines, I later went to my block to check whether she was sitting tight for me there. I likewise needed to go down to her block, however, didn't see her either. I asked her lodging mates a similar thing. I would not like to call home, with the goal that her folks would not freeze, as I was restlessly sitting tight for her call.

"Around 6:54 p.m. I saw an instant message that she has been captured and that I should call her sibling and illuminate him. Quickly I called her sibling, they came to Malete that night. After I saw the message, I went to Safety Unit to report and the Safety Unit called the police headquarters (in Malete) to report it.

"She said she was the just a single (understudy) in the taxi. A female ritualist was close to her and that was the lady she said was feeling chilly.

"At around 1:16 a.m. the next day, we were all the while imparting since they didn't know she had the telephone on her and I was soliciting her the circumstance from things and she said someone got her out and was asking where she was from and she disclosed to them she was from Omu-Aran. In this way, in the morning, I sent her an instant message soliciting her the circumstance from things however she didn't answer. I was even terrified however the message conveyed. That implies the telephone was still on."

"When they called her, she was notwithstanding feeling that the ball was in her court, yet they took her inside the auto and drove her to Omu-Aran and dropped her before her dad's home," the companion said.

KWASU demands just a single understudy seized, discharged

Evidently endeavoring to put the episode in its right viewpoint, KWASU administration has illuminated that just a single understudy was seized, as against the clashing figures in a few media reports. Talking through its Director, Office of the University Relations, Dr. Isiaka Aliagan, the college administration stated, "We don't know where individuals get the measurements they are bandying about. To the learning of the college, we just have one understudy who was hijacked yet she was inevitably discharged."

Focusing on that security has been amplified inside and outside the grounds since the occurrence, the Aliagan said KWASU would persevere relentlessly to ensure its understudies.

Aliagan, who expressed that the grabbed female understudy has since been brought together with her family, tested anybody with opposite raw numbers to make them open as opposed to trashing the college.

"Aside from the casualty, none of our understudies or staff has been accounted for missing," he demanded.

The college representative, be that as it may, guaranteed guardians, watchmen, and different partners that security agents were trying endeavors to find the culprits and prepare for a repeat of such episode.

He said the University Safety Unit, as a team with security agents, has increased its watch operations to ensure lives and properties of understudies, staff, and guests to the organization.

"Administration wishes to ask understudies to be security cognizant, to disparage just enrolled transport and to report abnormal people or developments around their inns and grounds," he prompted.

Mr. Layi Olabrewaju, Dorcas'father additionally addressed Newsmen

He said ;

"What would I be able to state once more? I express gratitude toward God for everything. It's about addressed supplications. In this way, we say thanks to God. Without a doubt, it was a nerve-racking background. I won't need any parent to have it whatsoever. She's very youthful for that sort of terrible experience. She indicates articulation of stun like that occasionally when she recollects what she went through. All a similar we express gratitude toward God for His assurance and gifts in our lives.

"I value the administration of the school, partners of my little girl, the DSS, Police and different offices and people for their supplications, endeavors, and support. All have performed respectably well in guaranteeing her opportunity. The family will at present need their petitions for her to get over the injury quick.

"I likewise need the school to enhance security around the understudies to dishearten future event. Nothing ought to be forgotten to accomplish this," he argued.